Legislation was introduced in the prior Congress to shift the measurement away from dollar amounts, with sponsors saying the current method gives agencies too many “easy A’s.” Image: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe SBA has again given federal agencies an overall grade of A in its annual measure of procurement from small businesses, saying that goals once again were over-achieved in 2024.
The scorecard evaluates records on meeting goals—separately for both prime contracts and subcontracts—for awards to small businesses, women-owned small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, service-disabled veteran owned businesses, and HUBZone small businesses.
Across government, those goals were cumulatively exceeded by 6 percent, it said, with Commerce, GSA, NRC, OPM, SBA itself, and Treasury getting grades of A+ for exceeding goals by at least 20 percent. All other departments and agencies among the two dozen in the evaluation received an A except for HHS and NASA with Bs, and USAID with a C.
Legislation was introduced in the prior Congress to shift the measurement away from dollar amounts, with sponsors saying the current method gives agencies too many “easy A’s.”
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